The burden of road traffic accidents in a French Departement: The description of the injuries and recent changes

BMC Public Health

Volumn 9, Issue , 2009, Pages

  Lapostolle, Annabelle ^a   Gadegbeku, Blandine ^b   Ndiaye, Amina ^b   Amoros, Emmanuelle ^b   Chiron, Mireille ^b   Spira, Alfred ^a   Laumon, Bernard ^b  

^a INSERM   (France)

^b University Lyon   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCIDENT; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ANKLE FRACTURE; ARM AMPUTATION; ARTICLE; BURN; CHILD; CLAVICLE FRACTURE; DISABILITY; ELBOW DISLOCATION; EYE INJURY; FACE FRACTURE; FATALITY; FEMALE; FIBULA FRACTURE; FINGER AMPUTATION; FRANCE; GENDER; HAND FRACTURE; HUMAN; HUMERUS FRACTURE; INCIDENCE; INJURY SCALE; INTOXICATION; LEG AMPUTATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; NERVE INJURY; PATELLA FRACTURE; PELVIS FRACTURE; RADIUS FRACTURE; REGISTER; RIB FRACTURE; SCHOOL CHILD; SHOULDER DISLOCATION; SKULL FRACTURE; SPINAL CORD INJURY; THUMB AMPUTATION; TIBIA FRACTURE; TRAFFIC; TRAFFIC ACCIDENT; ULNA FRACTURE; VERTEBRA FRACTURE; AGE DISTRIBUTION; COST OF ILLNESS; DISABLED PERSON; FRACTURE; HEAD INJURY; LIFE EXPECTANCY; LIFE TABLE; SEX RATIO; STATISTICS;

ABBREVIATED INJURY SCALE; ACCIDENTS, TRAFFIC; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; COST OF ILLNESS; CRANIOCEREBRAL TRAUMA; DISABLED PERSONS; FEMALE; FRACTURES, BONE; FRANCE; HUMANS; LIFE EXPECTANCY; LIFE TABLES; MALE; SEX DISTRIBUTION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 72849143495     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712458     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2458-9-386     Document Type: Article

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